Of all the deadly characters that populate “Fargo,” none is more skilled in violence than Hanzee Dent. As the second season unfolded, however, the Native American enforcer for the Gerhardt crime family, played by Zahn McClarnon, has emerged as more than just a one man seek-and-destroy mission.

His icy resolve erupted in last week’s episode, when a run-in with racists in a Sioux Falls bar triggered a spate of retribution that eventually turned his brother/boss, Dodd Gerhardt, into a target. Then, in Monday’s penultimate episode (“The Castle”), he lured other members of the Gerhardt clan into an ambush. Hanzee himself knifed the steely, pipe-smoking matriarch Floyd (Jean Smart), who had entered a turf war against her will.